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[Agora Deposit] B 21:19: Cremation, Sacrificial Pit II

Sacrificial Pit II in notebook = RSY Grave 7 ... Ca. 540 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:3: Inhumation of a male

Grave II in notebook = RSY Grave 17. PD 731-j ... Ca. 510-490 B.C.

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[Agora Deposit] B 21:23: Disturbed grave/inhumation

Rodney S. Young ... RSY/JP Disturbed Geometric burial over "Sacrificial Pit VI" (Grave B 21:22). Grave IX in notebook. Bones discarded? Pottery found in the upper filling of a sixth century cremation pit, which had perhaps ... Middle Geometric II/Transitional to Late Geometric

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[Agora Deposit] U 21:1: Well

Well cut into bedrock under late Roman building in ΕΛ. 1.2m in diameter with small cutting of unclear function at south edge about 0.2m wide. Walls cut straight down, tapering near bottom to 0.8m. Footholds ... Late Archaic ... There were 14 layers of fill from two periods-the Roman resurfacing of the area using Hellenistic fill (possibly associated with Deposit T-U 21:1, but not kept as such since floors were damaged in area directly above) and dumped fill from the late 6th/early 5th c. ... Layers: Hellenistic fill under Roman floors I.(86.34-85.93m) rubble II.(85.93-85.58m) dark brown rubble III.(85.57-85.30m) more stony rubble IV.(85.30-84.80m) very rocky, almost sterile, increase of clay and sand V.(84.80-84.03m) less rocks, almost sterile, increase of clay and sand Late 6th/early 5th B.C dumped fills VI.(84.03-82.64m) mix of clay and sand deposits, dog skulls VII.(82.64-81.79m) mostly sand VIII.(81.79-81.39m) light brownish-grey clay, almost sterile IX.(80.39-80.99m) mix of grey clay, brown clay and sand, much ceramic X.(80.99-80.24m) sandy, more ceramic XI.(80.19-77.74m) sandy, enormous stones (some 100kg+). ... This deposit should be called U 20-22: but won't be changed for practical reason.

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[Agora Deposit] C 11:4: Pit tomb, inhumation of two children

James H. Oliver ... (E.L. Smithson: Grave IX: PG). Two children's skeletons one on top of the other. Cf. PD 329 for PD 430 for second skeleton, same deposit. PG grave about 25m. SW of Cistern A at 46/ΜΔ. [In some records, ... Developed Protogeometric ... Hesperia 5 (1936), pp. 23-24, figs. 21-22 (PD 429) ... Agora XXXVI, Tomb 44, pp. 314-321, 544, figs. 2.216-2.223, pls. II, III ... Kerameikos IV, p. 20 and n. 18 (lekythoi).